Society for Social Neuroscience

Society for Social Neuroscience
Founded 2010
Founder John Cacioppo, Jean Decety
Focus Social Neuroscience
Location
  • 5658 S. University Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637
Members
1,453
Key people
 Jean Decety, President-elect (2012-2014)
Slogan Advancing the Understanding of the Social Brain
Website www.s4sn.org

The Society for Social Neuroscience (S4SN) is a learned society, headquartered at the University of Chicago for neuroscientists, psychologists, social scientists, and physicians around the world whose research is focused on the study of the biological systems that implement social processes and behavior, or how the brain and nervous system implement social interaction. The mission of the society is to serve as an international, interdisciplinary, distributed gathering place to advance and foster scientific training, research, and applications in the field of social neuroscience.

History

The Society for Social Neuroscience was founded on January 20, 2010 in Auckland, New Zealand, after a series of consultations led by John Cacioppo and Jean Decety with social neurobiologists, psychologists, neuroscientists, psychiatrists, and neurologists from all over the world. Its inaugural meeting took place on November 12, 2010, the day prior to the 2010 Society for Neuroscience meeting in San Diego, California.

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